The Exodus
The Exodus[a] is the founding myth of Israel, telling how the
IsraelitesIsraelites were delivered from slavery by their god
YahwehYahweh and
therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant.[1][b] Spread over
the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, it tells of
the events that befell the
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EgyptiansEgyptiansEgyptians (Egyptian Arabic: مَصريين‎
IPA: [mɑsˤɾɪjˈjiːn]; Maṣreyyīn; Arabic:
مِصريّون‎; Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
Ni/rem/en/kīmi) are an ethnic group native to
EgyptEgypt and the citizens
of that country sharing a common culture and a common dialect known as
Egyptian Arabic.
Egyptian identityEgyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of
EgyptEgypt is concentrated in the lower
NileNile Valley, the small strip of
cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the
Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west.
This unique geography has been the basis of the development of
Egyptian society since antiquity.
The daily language of the
EgyptiansEgyptians is the local variety of Arabic,
known as
Egyptian Arabic or Masri
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MidianMidianMidian (/ˈmɪdiən/; Hebrew: מִדְיָן‬), Madyan (Arabic:
مَـدْيَـن‎), or Madiam (Greek: Μαδιάμ)[1] is a
geographical place mentioned in the
TorahTorah and Qur’an. William G.
Dever states that biblical
MidianMidian was in the "northwest Arabian
Peninsula, on the east shore of the
Gulf of AqabaGulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea", an
area which he notes was "never extensively settled until the 8th-7th
century B.C."[2]
According to the Book of Genesis, the Midianites were the descendants
of Midian, who was a son of
AbrahamAbraham and his wife Keturah: "Abraham
took a wife, and her name was Keturah
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Destroying Angel (Bible)
The Destroying Angel or Angel of Death in the
Hebrew BibleHebrew Bible is an
entity sent out by
YahwehYahweh on several occasions to kill enemies of the
Israelites. In
2 Samuel2 Samuel 24:15, it kills the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
In
I ChroniclesI Chronicles 21:15, the same "angel of the Lord" is seen by David
to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his
hand stretched out against Jerusalem." Later, the angel of the Lord
kills 185,000 men of Sennacherib's Assyrian army, thereby saving
Hezekiah's Jerusalem in
II Kings 19:35.
The angel (malak) is referred to under various terms, including
Mashḥit (pron
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Hecht Museum
The Reuben and Edith
Hecht MuseumHecht Museum is a museum located on the grounds
of the University of Haifa,[1] Israel.Contents1 History
2 Exhibits
3 Activities
4 Journal
5 See also
6 References
7 External linksHistory[edit]Ma'agan Michael boatThe
Hecht MuseumHecht Museum was established in 1984 by Reuben Hecht,[1] director
of Dagon Silos and a founding member of the University of
HaifaHaifa Board
of Governors. For sixty years, Hecht collected archaeological
artefacts representing the material culture of the Land of
IsraelIsrael in
ancient times. He was particularly interested in finds from the
Canaanite period to the end of the Byzantine period
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Book Of Amos
The
BookBook of Amos is the third of the
Twelve Minor ProphetsTwelve Minor Prophets in the
Hebrew Bible/
Old TestamentOld Testament and the second in the Greek Septuagint
tradition.[1] Amos, an older contemporary of
HoseaHosea and Isaiah,[2] was
active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II[2] (788–747 BC),[3]
making the
BookBook of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.
Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern
kingdom of Israel.[2] His major themes of social justice, God's
omnipotence, and divine judgment became staples of prophecy.[2]Contents1 Structure
2 Summary
3 Composition
4 Themes
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External linksStructure[edit]Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 846:
Amos 2Amos 2 (LXX)(Michael D. Coogan, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament, 2009,
p
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Book Of Hosea
The
BookBook of
HoseaHosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. According
to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the
twelve Minor Prophets.
Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the
BookBook of
HoseaHosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh, metaphorically
comparing Israel’s abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful
to her husband. According to the book’s narrative, the relationship
between
HoseaHosea and his unfaithful wife Gomer is comparable to the
relationship between Yahweh and his unfaithful people Israel
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Book Of Micah
The
BookBook of
Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old
Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.[1] It records
the sayings of Micah, whose name is Mikayahu,(Hebrew:
מִיכָיָ֫הוּ ) meaning "Who is like Yahweh?",[2] an
8th-century B.C
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Mount NeboMount NeboMount Nebo (Arabic: جبل نيبو‎ Jabal Nībū; Hebrew: הַר
נְבוֹ‬ Har Nevo) is an elevated ridge in Jordan, approximately
710 metres (2,330 ft) above sea level, mentioned in the Hebrew
Bible as the place where
MosesMoses was granted a view of the Promised
Land. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the Holy Land
and, to the north, a more limited one of the valley of the River
Jordan
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Akhenaten
Akhetaten, Gempaaten, Hwt-BenbenReligion
Ancient Egyptian religion
Atenism
AkhenatenAkhenaten (/ˌækəˈnɑːtən/;[1] also spelled Echnaton,[7]
Akhenaton,[8] Ikhnaton,[9] and Khuenaten;[10][11] meaning "Effective
for Aten"), known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV
(sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, and meaning "
AmunAmun Is
Satisfied"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the
18th Dynasty18th Dynasty who
ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is noted
for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship
centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monolatristic,
henotheistic, or even quasi-monotheistic
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HabiruHabiruHabiru (sometimes written as Hapiru, and more accurately 'Apiru,
meaning "dusty, dirty") is a term used in 2nd millennium BCE texts
throughout the
Fertile CrescentFertile Crescent for people variously described as
rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and
laborers.[1] [2] [3][4][5] The d
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